Did the forums enter a worm hole?

Did the forums enter a worm hole?

I've been quite remiss in my perusals of these hallowed forums over the last few weeks. Apparently, the site was hacked and brought down for a couple of days earlier in February. Is that the reason why I logged on at (forum time) 2:30 AM on March 2 and then, after reading through a thread, it was suddenly 6:34 PM on March 1! After reading a few more posts it's 3:02 AM on March 2! Did the forums enter a time-space anomaly? Has anyone else encountered this problem? I'm taking a day off from the office as I'm recovering from the flu so perhaps it was all in fever-ravaged brain.

Re: Did the forums enter a worm hole?

rthomson wrote:I've been quite remiss in my perusals of these hallowed forums over the last few weeks. Apparently, the site was hacked and brought down for a couple of days earlier in February. Is that the reason why I logged on at (forum time) 2:30 AM on March 2 and then, after reading through a thread, it was suddenly 6:34 PM on March 1! After reading a few more posts it's 3:02 AM on March 2! Did the forums enter a time-space anomaly? Has anyone else encountered this problem? I'm taking a day off from the office as I'm recovering from the flu so perhaps it was all in fever-ravaged brain.

Ron

Before login all times are GMT. When you login, it converts the time to your local time (we're both GMT-8, so it goes 8 hrs back in time). After you leave the site/logout (I don't know if there's a timeout) your view time goes back to GMT

Re: Did the forums enter a worm hole?

rthomson wrote:I've been quite remiss in my perusals of these hallowed forums over the last few weeks. Apparently, the site was hacked and brought down for a couple of days earlier in February. Is that the reason why I logged on at (forum time) 2:30 AM on March 2 and then, after reading through a thread, it was suddenly 6:34 PM on March 1! After reading a few more posts it's 3:02 AM on March 2! Did the forums enter a time-space anomaly? Has anyone else encountered this problem? I'm taking a day off from the office as I'm recovering from the flu so perhaps it was all in fever-ravaged brain.

Ron

Before login all times are GMT. When you login, it converts the time to your local time (we're both GMT-8, so it goes 8 hrs back in time). After you leave the site/logout (I don't know if there's a timeout) your view time goes back to GMT

Whoops! Those times make even less sense than normal - the 6:34 pm time seems to be GMT. Do you have your profile set to GMT+8?

Re: Did the forums enter a worm hole?

rthomson wrote:I've been quite remiss in my perusals of these hallowed forums over the last few weeks. Apparently, the site was hacked and brought down for a couple of days earlier in February. Is that the reason why I logged on at (forum time) 2:30 AM on March 2 and then, after reading through a thread, it was suddenly 6:34 PM on March 1! After reading a few more posts it's 3:02 AM on March 2! Did the forums enter a time-space anomaly? Has anyone else encountered this problem? I'm taking a day off from the office as I'm recovering from the flu so perhaps it was all in fever-ravaged brain.

Ron

Ron

No, nothing happened. Everything was as normal. I think your fever may have been worse than you originally thought.

Re: login problems. Try deleting your cookies (or just the Whiskymag.com ones if you don't want to loose all of them). If you click the remember me box you should never have to log in again. Are you using a strange browser or the standard IE?

Forum quirks and quarks

Posters and those of like ilk:
Has the forum skirted another "Black Hole" lately? I've noticed the pages are taking a long time to load, just within the last 5 minutes. Mr. T. and I noticed it earlier in the week. Is anyone else noticing this slowness of late? Peter

Will try to eat the cookies when I get home (I'm in lovely Montreal!). I get logged off just switching from thread to thread. Go to make a post and get the log-in page. Happens many times in a single session. Always check the box. Really, really annoying. Would like to know if anyone else has this problem. I am on dial-up, might be part of it. DSL soon.

Re: Wrong language!

MrTattieHeid wrote:(I'm in lovely Montreal!). I get logged off just switching from thread to thread. ... Really, really annoying. ... I am on dial-up, might be part of it. DSL soon.

It's because you're using American technology in Canada with the added problem that "le modem ne parle pas français. C'est trop mauvais!" M.P.or if you will "Portage de Muskrat"

That's "Portage du Rat Musqué"!

The problem happens at home, Musqué. The internet cafés all have high-speed connections and work just peachy. Uh, peachily. I am using their machine. As I have previously noted, I am laptopless in Montréal (a service that will normally cost you $20 in that neighborhood. Or so I hear.)

Tossed my cookies (ha ha!) and still have the same problem. I really think it's down to dial-up and the slow passage of data. Is anyone else here still using dial-up (or stylus and papyrus, for that matter)? If so, do you have similar problems, or no?

MrTattieHeid wrote:Tossed my cookies (ha ha!) and still have the same problem. I really think it's down to dial-up and the slow passage of data. Is anyone else here still using dial-up (or stylus and papyrus, for that matter)? If so, do you have similar problems, or no?

Have you tried clearing your browser cache, it is maybe holding old pages from the previous forum. I don't think it is a dialup problem, I've managed to use the forum on some very slow connections ...... unless your dialup provider changes your IP address or uses a proxy farm, this can sometimes cause erros if not setup correctly.